Video Microsoft Doesn't Want You To See (XB1)

[Shiranu]

//http://www.xboxshun.com/
There's already a good boycott site. Hope you guys will join it. They already have nearly four thousand signatures.

There is no such thing as bad press. Sites like that think they're doing harm to the product sales when in fact they generally do the exact opposite.

I completely disagree. It doesn't matter how much press Microsoft gets, if nobody buys their stuff they won't make a profit.  Microsoft's stock has already gone down and everybody I know had said they're not buying an Xbox One. There's no way Microsoft can succeed with the new Xbox.

This.

I cant think of a single person I have met who has saw all this and said, "Wow! I really want an Xbox now!". Only one person I know is buying one (and one for his girlfriend), and that is because he is a HARDCORE Microsoft/Halo fanboy.

[_Xenu_]

//http://www.xboxshun.com/
There's already a good boycott site. Hope you guys will join it. They already have nearly four thousand signatures.

There is no such thing as bad press. Sites like that think they're doing harm to the product sales when in fact they generally do the exact opposite.

There's something I've been wondering: Are you an owner of MSFT stock?

[Johan]

There's something I've been wondering: Are you an owner of MSFT stock?

Nope. Like I said earlier, I don't have a dog in this race.

I'm just going with the odds. Every time a tech company introduces a new generation of some product which has some change that hard core fans decide they don't like, the 'net runs amuck with 'this thing is going to fail on day one' type posts. And more often than not, the product does as the company expected or better. I've seen it time and time and time again. I could be wrong and if I am, I give you all permission to gloat with reckless abandon.

But I still stand by what I said about no such thing as bad press. With extremely rare exception, the more people talk about a product, even if they're saying bad things, the more sales will result.

[Farroc]

But never before have the changes been this bad, and, as far as I know, there's never been a boycott website with thousands of signatures. Besides, the current evidence speaks for itself. Ps4 pre-orders outnumber xb1 pre-orders 3 to 2.

[pato15]

Microsoft didn't get to be Microsoft by accident.

Actually, they kinda did. They just happened to be providing the OS for IBM PCs when they took off. Then the need for backward compatibility ensured that they would dominate the OS market. This makes it particularly ironic that the XBone doesn't offer backward compatibility.

[Johan]

The boycott website makes me laugh. A lot.

[Johan]

Microsoft didn't get to be Microsoft by accident.

Actually, they kinda did. They just happened to be providing the OS for IBM PCs when they took off. Then the need for backward compatibility ensured that they would dominate the OS market. This makes it particularly ironic that the XBone doesn't offer backward compatibility.

They also licensed the software to IBM rather than selling it to them outright as was the common model up until that point. Like I said, no accident.

[Aroura33]

This is such a weird thread. Some of you seem awfully invested in an crap item that you will not buy.  :-k

We get it, the Xbox1 is crap.  We all agree.  Microsoft shot itself in the foot, but not in the head.  It has many other NON crappy products, and will continue on as a company, hopefully learning from this stupid mistake.

Somehow, I doubt this topic will die so easily though.....

[Farroc]

I don't understand what your problem is Johan. The new Xbox is completely anti-consumerist and unfair, and some of us are trying to do something about it. Not all of us have internet, or feel comfortable paying 60$ for a game we won't own. We're not doing this because we're afraid of change, we're doing this because Microsoft turning into a bunch money-hungry corporate asses.

[_Xenu_]

They also licensed the software to IBM rather than selling it to them outright as was the common model up until that point. Like I said, no accident.

They "sold" IBM vaporware, then went out, bought a third rate OS and slapped their logo on it. MS-DOS was a joke, even for its time. In the beginning, it didn't even have folders. And it never gained any sort of native hardware support, forcing individual developers to write their own device drivers. If UNIX hadn't been in a state of legal flux at the time, MS would have been deservedly wiped out.

[Farroc]

This is such a weird thread. Some of you seem awfully invested in an crap item that you will not buy.  :-k

We get it, the Xbox1 is crap.  We all agree.  Microsoft shot itself in the foot, but not in the head.  It has many other NON crappy products, and will continue on as a company, hopefully learning from this stupid mistake.

Somehow, I doubt this topic will die so easily though.....

This reason we're doing this, instead of simply not buying the Xbox One for ourselves, is because the xb1 is just the beginning. Do you think the reason Sony hasn't implemented as many DRM policies as Microsoft is because Sony cares about how gamers feel? No. They're just as evil and greedy as those bastards at Microsoft. The reason Sony hasn't done the same things as Microsoft is because they knew something like this would happen, and they would loose money. But if we stop protesting and leave the issue alone, Microsoft will profit from the xb1, and it won't be long before Sony and Nintendo follow. And then we'll be left with nothing. That, is why we're so "invested" in this.

[the_antithesis]

Do you think the reason Sony hasn't implemented as many DRM policies as Microsoft is because Sony cares about how gamers feel?.

Nobody cares how gamers feel. Gamers are a bunch of whiny cunts.

[Farroc]

I have no idea why everyone is being so hostile about this. Especially you Antithesis. I hope you're just in a bad mood.

[Shiranu]

Do you think the reason Sony hasn't implemented as many DRM policies as Microsoft is because Sony cares about how gamers feel?.

Nobody cares how gamers feel. Gamers are a bunch of whiny cunts.

You care about how someone feels if you expect to dominate a market of those people.

[_Xenu_]

I have no idea why everyone is being so hostile about this. Especially you Antithesis. I hope you're just in a bad mood.

Is he ever in a good mood?